Thursday, August 2, 2012

Top Ways to Boost Website Traffic

By Don Contreras


Every online marketer must put in the time and effort to send high quality traffic to their sites. It's never enough just having the site, or blog. It's absolutely necessary to build a reason into your site for people to want to spend more than 30 seconds there. Creating traffic to your site isn't rocket science, but it's something you need to learn how to do... plus it takes work and time. If you're really serious about your business, you'll set aside some time each day to work on building traffic. If you begin to engage in social media marketing, and if your site is interesting enough, you may begin to receive traffic from people telling others about your site. In the meantime, however, here are some things you can do to start bringing in visitors.

One simple method to increase your website traffic is to look for blogs in your niche and leave comments. Don't just leave any kind of comment. Don't go to blogs and just write something like, "nice blog." If you go around writing "nice blog!" all over the internet, you will get the reputation of a spammer. You have to say something that is related to the actual discussion, so take the time to read a few posts and then reply with a relevant comment. This will show the blog author that you paid attention to what he wrote and that you value his time. This also increases the chances that the owner of the blog and maybe some readers will visit your website in return. You might even get more publicity by being granted a place in the blog owner's blogroll!

You can get a gig as a guest writer for other people's sites. You can get your content and your name onto other people's sites/blogs and tap into their readership. People will naturally be curious about you if your writing and content are good. The key is to get well respected websites in your niche to feature your work. If you take the time and establish a positive relationship with these site owners, it will help a great deal to get published.

Look around, find and contact the publishers of good quality newsletters, or ezines, in your market topic. Then, politely ask if you can submit some content to their newsletters. Of course you will not ask for payment, but rather be able to use include your link in the bio section. If you write good articles, with good information, you'll see that many newsletters publishers will let you do this. You never know what may come of it, maybe a paid writing job.

There are quite a few ways to drive traffic to your site. But it's a process that is always continuing and neverending. Traffic building plus backlink building are two things that should be worked on everyday. With so much to do and so much variety, it's not necessary for it to be terribly boring. So maybe just think in terms of the money those efforts will bring you.




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